interesting, do you have any link to the source/document/scientific paper which describes it? Were rocks really used for trading? Do you know which region this photo comes from? They are from the island nation of Yap. Hard to believe you've never heard of them before... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rai_stones |
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I've been reporting all their spam posts to the mods as: Trash, cloudmining spam With any luck they will soon be booted off the Forum  |
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I used and use only Bit3-mining services. They are on a mission to make bitcoin mining smarter and make it easily accessible to all. That is why they made an indelible impression on me.
I have to agree, Bitcoin mining difficulty dropped by 50%. It's the ideal time to get into Bitcoin cloud mining. What planet are you from? BTC Diff sure as hell has NOT dropped by 50% here on Earth... Folks... cloud mining for BTC is a SCAM. Generally they are Ponzi's. Period. End of story. Brand new folks here shilling *any* cloud site and making ridiculous 'observations' like I emphasized in the quote should be and *is* a HUGE clue. |
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And the fun just continues https://fortune.com/crypto/2022/12/09/bitcoin-miners-billions-debt-crypto-catastrophe/A (very) few operators/lenders were smart Lenders are breathing down their necks, and the miners need quick cash. But only a handful of companies are buying mining rigs these days—and Bradford’s CleanSpark, which only took on a small amount of debt during the bull run, is one of them.
Having always sold 70% of the Bitcoin it mined using mostly cheap nuclear energy, CleanSpark is in the enviable position of being rich enough to swoop in to buy box-fresh, top-of-the-line machines from near-bankrupt miners at sensible prices. At the start of the month, CleanSpark spent $5.9 million on 3,843 miners that Bradford says cost about $1,500 each—down from $13,000 last November during peak Bitcoin mania. Und too many were not.. Lenders now hold all the power. Financiers have already begun to repossess mining equipment—lender NYDIG took back 26,200 machines from miner Stronghold. At least the article ends on a positive note but also a warning of the whole cycle repeating itself when diff drops from farms shutting down and BTC price recovering |
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It should be pointed out that at least when using Raspian on a Pi3, it is a good idea to run multiple instances of cgminer when your sticks/pods are along side older ones that have vastly lower hash rate. In my case a Compac-F in one instance and 1 Newpac + 1 2Pac in a 2nd instance. If need be just run the latest/greatest instance for F's & R909 and older one for others until Kano gets it worked out  |
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Stratum V2 (S2) has ....
Totally off topic to be shilling V2 here. Requesting that the mods move/remove it. |
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Well lets hope the suggested random numbers 200 vs 250 are wrong, coz that's a once in about 2074 months event (172.9 years)
Of course that's not impossible, but yeah maybe StratumV2 doesn't work To be honest, issues with V2 was my 1st thought... Considering that at-scale for farms it acts as/is a proxy to aggregate a large # of miners into 1 connection it would be very ironic if they shot themselves in the foot with the same bug(s) that caused the Genesis kerfuffle... |
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More on the loans used to buy crypto gear this year and the aftermath of those decisions https://www.pcgamer.com/crypto-lenders-are-suffering-as-bitcoin-miners-are-unable-to-pay-back-gigantic-loans/Per the article: At its height, the crypto lending industry Bloomberg estimates that "as much as $4 billion" worth of mining equipment has been financed. As profits soared as the price of Bitcoin went up, and more loans were issued, and as Matthew Kimmell, an analyst at CoinShares (opens in new tab), put it to Bloomberg, “There hasn’t necessarily been the best due diligence on whether a miner was credit-worthy or not." Gee, ya think? |
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uninstalling security updates and every windows update that they have an uninstall button for from last night didn't fix the problem. Can't get rid of security update kb5010342 has an error when trying to uninstall. Software is no longer compatible with the updated version of windows 10
Works fine for me BUT I did have to tell Malwarebytes to allow it to run. Most it not all AV software will let you do that. |
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is anyone having issues getting INA260AIPWR modules from distributors ? i have a couple of modified BitaxeMax_v2 boards from skot design and a work in progress xBit (Call it BitaxeMax4 with some routing attitude) but getting those modules is hard due to chip shortages. The some unknown distributors that have them seem shady to me.
Oof, yeah the INA260 is out of stock everywhere. I meant to leave a note about this. The INA260 is an easy power monitor IC. I have a handful in my parts stash and I wanted to give it a try to get some automated power readings. It definitely not required; feel free to leave this part out. You can close the jumper J7 to bypass the INA260. through Winsource with MOQ of 10pccs. and a couple other distributors. |
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Why on Gods little green earth would an operation like Riot pushing 7.7 exahash even use a pool?  ?? They are more than big enough to go solo. Hell, if they have no capable coders themselves, just hire someone like Kano or even -ck to setup it up for them |
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@citb0in, I should point out that after queue1 went to the Kanopool discord channel he und Kano quickly found that it is a power issue (they tried using a normal USB port for power). Amazing how that works when folks have an intelligent discussion eh? I should add that you've been on Ignore for quite a while so whatever crap you spew I don't see nor care too. Too bad it doesn't works with quotes as well. Anyone wanna bet they will still reply with more off-topic venom anyway?  |
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Just follow what should be normal safe & sane computer security procedures:
Always use a firewall and anti-virus software on any computer that can access the miner(s)
NEVER blindly download software from unknown or untrusted sources be careful of untrusted emails, etc.
If you get a used miner: 1st download a new copy of its firmware from the manufacturers website, connect the miner to a PC that preferably is not connected to anything else (a cheap Chromebook is great) and flash the firmware to the miner. Only then is it safe to put the miner online along with other miners you may have. Most malware will search for all miners on your network to try to infect them so used miners need to be isolated and reflashed before putting them on your man network.
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a. Virtually no pools are opensource as most run their own software and not something based on ckpool
b. It would not be a pool that is redirecting your hash rate it would be malware you picked up that has infected your miner.
Just be sure to use well known pools that have been around a long time such as; kano.is, ViaBTC.com, F2Pool.com, AntPool.com, etc.
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Hello, I'm playing around with a gekko compac f, and I'm seeing this error: GSF0: GetResults (amt=0 err=-7 ern=60)
Does anyone know what it is referring to?
Thanks.
I've no idea but you'll get answers faster if you move this to the Compac-F thread... |
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They can not permit it to openly use on the other not able to collect revenue from it. Yes they can and some like the USA do collect their share of the revenue and accept its usage. It's called using/enforcing their current tax systems. The setup is no different than how they handle business that are cash based. Any busness that has income MUST report it no matter it being crypto or fiat. Same for individuals. |
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Or will it melt itself and cause a short circuit? Assuming that all software protection fails or the problem happens before the monitors can pick it up -- Yes Case in point:  |
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I believe that the advancement of technology has to allow getting the same hash number, with half of the current consumption. And as other have said, all that will happen is that the mfgr's will just continue to pack more chips into the hardware until it still pulls the same amount of power per machine. |
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Going by the Compac-F which can pull >15w (overclocked) with Vcore of say 1.5v that gives the one chip pulling 10A. If Vcore is 1.4v then it's 10.7A per chip. at 1.2v, 12.5A. Using 9 chips in parallel for each block (domain) in the string that means each block is pulling between 90 to 112.5a which fits well with the s17 PSU can put out per-board. Even using 10w power @1.2v it's still 8.333A/chip or 75A per block of 9.
Those currents explain why there is extensive use of bus bars soldered on top of the power planes in miners like the s17. Canaan does the same in their Avalons.
Somewhere on Bitfury's github they have the full open source schematics and PCB gerbers/BOMs for their older model miners that used either 24 or 48 vdc per-string so those could be used as a reference to using strings.
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Only working with 4 x BM1397 in Series This is where being clear on terminology used is crucial: When you say 'series' I assume you are talking about daisy-chaining the data chain and the Vcore is feeding power to the 4x chips in parallel right? I recall seeing that the s17 chip can pull up to 15A(?) so x4 in parallel that means the regulator will be supplying up to 60 amps. Those better be some pretty hefty power planes... |
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